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Re: The Importance of Story Telling
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Lynn Baum <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 15 May 2012 05:23:18 -0400
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Eric Jolly  uses storytelling to make complex issues of diversity 
meaningful and memorable to a broad audience.
Lynn Baum
Senior Content Developer
Jan Crocker Museum Associates

On 5/14/12 12:11 PM, Marjorie Hilton wrote:
> ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers
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> I also heard that this morning. Story telling has sooo many positive
> aspects from recalling history to making people feel positive within their
> lives.
> Margie
>
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Beryl Rosenthal<
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>> ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers
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>> I heard that this morning, and was very excited about it.  It takes the
>> pressure off patients who can't remember, and their families, who get
>> frustrated and see them as "gone" - creativity lives on!
>> Beryl
>> On May 14, 2012, at 10:04 AM, Charlie Carlson wrote:
>>
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>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> There are a couple of interesting and potentially informative stories
>> about the role of story telling in our lives and pick up almost exclusively
>> on the affective role of creating a story from the events or facts at hand.
>>> The cohort is folks with dementia, but the application is much more
>> universally applicable with many parallels to informal education.  (I know
>> this is going to sound like a joke, but it's not.)  I put it out there
>> because of the controlled double blind nature of one of research papers,
>>> and relevance to affective aspects of learning, and conversation.  No
>> one ever fails a story, and I found the affective parallel between story
>> telling and learning striking.
>>>
>>> Alzheimer's Patients Turn To Stories Instead Of Memories : Shots -
>> Health Blog : NPR
>>>
>> http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/05/14/152442084/alzheimers-patients-turn-to-stories-instead-of-memories
>>>
>>> Sent from Charlie's iPad
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